Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2017 0:59:13 GMT
Two like that.
Once when I was a teenager I caught a few minutes of this weird movie on TV over christmas. I had to turn over after a few minutes, but what I saw of it fascinated me. There was no story, no dialogue, no characters, just footage of nature and people and the like, all sped up or slowed down. There was an odd hypnotic quality to it that I thought was amazing. I remember reading the title in the TV guide, but it was some weird word that made no sense to me.
Found out maybe ten years later that it was Koyaanisqatsi. Which I still think is one of the most amazing movies I have ever seen.
Then another time I saw an animated short on TV. It was set to Ravel's Bolero, and seemed to be some weird take on the process of evolution. I spent year and years trying to work out what it was. Then eventually the internet came along and the world started to turn into one where you could find out pretty much anything just by typing it into Yahoo (back then). How did we ever find anything out before the internet?!
So one day I googled "Animated movie bolero evolution", and out popped "Allegro non troppo". Which is awesome.
Here's one that I've never tracked down. It was an old movie, black and white. It involved a woman living in a large house, with her husband, possibly others. But there are these monsters in the house, little creatures only a foot or so tall. Only she ever saw them, and everyone else refused to believe her - they thought she was going mad.
The scene I remember is that she's at a dinner table, with a napkin in her lap, and one of the creatures grabs it and tries to pull it off. And she has a death grip on this napkin, trying to hold onto it, and all the while trying to look to everyone else as if there's nothing wrong.
It's an image that always stuck with me, that this woman was in absolute terror but at the same time had to not show any sign of it to anybody. I really wish I could work out what the movie was.
Once when I was a teenager I caught a few minutes of this weird movie on TV over christmas. I had to turn over after a few minutes, but what I saw of it fascinated me. There was no story, no dialogue, no characters, just footage of nature and people and the like, all sped up or slowed down. There was an odd hypnotic quality to it that I thought was amazing. I remember reading the title in the TV guide, but it was some weird word that made no sense to me.
Found out maybe ten years later that it was Koyaanisqatsi. Which I still think is one of the most amazing movies I have ever seen.
Then another time I saw an animated short on TV. It was set to Ravel's Bolero, and seemed to be some weird take on the process of evolution. I spent year and years trying to work out what it was. Then eventually the internet came along and the world started to turn into one where you could find out pretty much anything just by typing it into Yahoo (back then). How did we ever find anything out before the internet?!
So one day I googled "Animated movie bolero evolution", and out popped "Allegro non troppo". Which is awesome.
Here's one that I've never tracked down. It was an old movie, black and white. It involved a woman living in a large house, with her husband, possibly others. But there are these monsters in the house, little creatures only a foot or so tall. Only she ever saw them, and everyone else refused to believe her - they thought she was going mad.
The scene I remember is that she's at a dinner table, with a napkin in her lap, and one of the creatures grabs it and tries to pull it off. And she has a death grip on this napkin, trying to hold onto it, and all the while trying to look to everyone else as if there's nothing wrong.
It's an image that always stuck with me, that this woman was in absolute terror but at the same time had to not show any sign of it to anybody. I really wish I could work out what the movie was.